Ronald Corp

Ronald Corp is Founder and Artistic Director of the New London Orchestra and New London Children’s Choir, and Musical Director of the London Chorus and Highgate Choral Society.

In addition to his work with the New London Orchestra, Corp’s engagements have included concerts and recordings with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Orchestra, the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Radio and Television Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Bournemouth Sinfonietta. He has appeared many times at the BBC Proms and also works regularly with the BBC Singers, for whom he has written a substantial choral work, Dover Beach.

The New London Children’s Choir is one of the busiest and most successful youth choirs in the country, and also performs frequently abroad including throughout Europe and in the USA. Ronald Corp has conducted the choir in numerous concerts, recordings and a television workshop as part of the Young Musician of the Year. The choir’s other engagements have included the premières of over 35 commissions as well as works by leading composers including its patrons Andriessen and Nyman; performances at the Proms; numerous soundtracks and TV recordings; and concerts and recordings with all the major London orchestras and for the BBC.

Ronald Corp is also a composer and his first major choral work And all the Trumpets Sounded was premièred in 1989 by Highgate Choral Society, who commissioned it, and is published by Stainer and Bell. His cantata Laudamus was premièred at St. John’s, Smith Square in 1994 by the London Choral Society to great critical acclaim and its third performance was given at a Gala concert in the Royal Festival Hall. Sainsbury’s commissioned him to compose a piece for the Farnham Youth Choir, winners in their section of the Sainsbury Choir of the Year Competition. Four Elizabethan Lyrics is published by the Oxford University Press, for whom Ronald Corp is also editing a series of publications for upper voices.

Recent compositions include Cornucopia, a major choral work for children’s choir and orchestra, which was commissioned by the National Association of Head Teachers and premièred in Leicester in 1997. The première of the Piano Concerto was given by Julian Evans in a New London Orchestra concert in 1997 as part of its ‘British Concertos’ series, and the cantata A New Song was premiered in May 1999. Recent performances include the premières of two major choral works – Mary’s Song for the Beckenham Chorale, and Adonai Echad (The Lord is One) for the Highgate Choral Society’s concert in the 2001 Hampstead and Highgate Festival. In May 2003 the Highgate Choral Society premièred the Missa San Marco in St Mark’s, Venice. Corp also writes many works for community projects such as the New London Orchestra’s Urban Voices in Gospel Oak in 2003-04.

An expert in choral training and choral repertory, Ronald Corp’s comprehensive reference book entitled “The Choral Singer’s Companion” has been recently republished in a third edition.

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